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From Justin Dearing
Subject Some doc suggestions
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Switched jobs recently and returning to postgres after a long hiatus. The docs are great, but I noticed a few things  that could be improved in the area of catalot documentations.

  1. The CREATE/ALTER/DROP doc pages should have a link to the corresponding pg_catalog and INFORMATION_schema tables and views for that object type. The 
  2. pg_catalog docs should have a link to their corresponding information_schema table or view and visa versa.
  3. Perhaps this page (and its analogs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/catalogs.html should have a 1-3 word description of each catalog. Some are unintuitive. For example it took awhile to figure out pg_attribute was the list of columns.
  4. OID columns should have a note saying something to the effect of "to get the text name of this simply use atttypid::REGTYPE"
  5. I discovered that pg_catalog.name is a built in type today, but its not listed as a built in type. I've yet to find it in the docs. It should either be listed in the built in types, or the list of built in types should link to the list of "other built in types" whereever they are.
If any of those suggestions are ameanable where are the docs for contributing to the docs?

Regards,

Justin Dearing

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